Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:08:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: seifert@sequent.com (David Seifert) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode Message-ID: <199810122008.NAA21219@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810092325.QAA07824@eng4.sequent.com> from "David Seifert" at Oct 9, 98 04:25:44 pm
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> > Isn't this more of a case of us running a UNIX that isn't ARC PALcode > > friendly? > > No. > > The PALcode customises the machine for a particular OS. > That is the whole point of the PALcode. > There is PALcode for Unix, PALcode for VMS, and PALcode for NT. I understand that. I also understand that some PALcode is more equal than others, in terms of coming for free with the hardware. I'm not married to ARC; I'd be just as happy with any other PALcode that spanned the entire product line and didn't cost extra to obtain. Perhaps the VMS PAL code would be a good fit, since VMS requires 4 protection domains, and we seem to run fine on x86, which also provides 4 protection domains. > Similar deal with the console software. > SRM for VMS and Unix, ARC or AlphaBIOS for NT. > > ARC cannot read a BSD disklabel. I'm also not married to BSD disklabels. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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